The Roman imperial cult (Latin: cultus imperatorius) identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas)...

An imperial cult is a form of state religion in which an emperor or a dynasty of emperors (or rulers of another title) are worshipped as demigods or deities...

state divinity (divus) by vote of the Senate. The Roman imperial cult, influenced by Hellenistic ruler cult, became one of the major ways Rome advertised...

Mystery religions, mystery cults, sacred mysteries or simply mysteries, were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation was reserved...

the Roman empire, and Diodorus Siculus wrote that the religion was known throughout almost the whole inhabited world. Almost as famous was the cult of...

Roman Egypt was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 641. The province encompassed most of modern-day Egypt except for the Sinai...

to Imperial priesthood gave them Roman citizenship. In an empire of great religious and cultural diversity, the Imperial cult offered a common Roman identity...

influenced by Hellenistic religion (notably neoplatonism) as well as the Roman imperial cult. Western Christianity is largely based on the Catholic Church's Latin...

tax were exempt from the obligation of making sacrifices to the Roman imperial cult). In 313, Constantine and Licinius issued the Edict of Milan giving...

worshipful image Imperial cult, a form of state religion in which a ruler is worshipped as a demigod or deity Roman imperial cult, identified emperors...